Men's March Madness 2025: Ranking the remaining 16 teams - ESPN

After a calm first round in the 2025 men's NCAA tournament, fans wanted more drama. The 32 remaining teams delivered.

Houston got a late block to seal a win over Gonzaga. John Calipari sent Rick Pitino home in a battle of former Kentucky coaches. BYU survived against Wisconsin. Florida's Walter Clayton Jr. hit a clutch 3-pointer to beat back-to-back defending champion UConn, and then Derik Queen beat the buzzer to send Maryland to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2016.

No mid-majors remain in the field, and the SEC has seven teams moving on. In fact, only four conferences are represented in the regional semifinals.

If we're lucky, every game in Atlanta, Newark, Indianapolis and San Francisco will offer even more drama and memorable moments.

We're here to help establish a new world order with the 16 teams left vying for the 2025 national title.

Check out everything we had learned about the teams after the first day of the second round on Saturday and after the second day of the second round on Sunday.

1. Duke Blue Devils
Original seed: No. 1 seed (East)
NCAA tournament results: Defeated No. 16 Mount St. Mary's 93-49 (first round); defeated No. 9 Baylor 89-66 (round of 32)

After North Carolina lost to Duke for the third time this season in the ACC tournament semifinals, Tar Heels coach Hubert Davis said the Blue Devils are bigger than Cooper Flagg, who had missed the game with an injury. «Duke is the No. 1 team in the country because they are a team. It's not just one or two guys,» Davis said in the postgame news conference. «It's a number of guys that are really impactful and really good on both ends of the floor.» So far, the Blue Devils haven't proved him wrong. Beating the 1-seed in the East will require solving